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This would be a dealbreaker for me. It would drive me nuts to have my child's name pronounced differently to what I wanted it to be. But that is just my personal thing.
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Deal breaker here too. I deliberately avoided names that had more than one pronunciation, as much as I loved them.
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I would hate it if my child's name was pronounced incorrectly. It annoys me enough when people call DD Isabella when it's not her name.
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It drove my mum and dad crazy so much that they changed my sisters name.
She was named Nicola pron nick-olaShe was named this Ireland and people had no problem saying it the correct way. When the immigrated to Australia though people called her nick uh la. Seeming to totally forget abou the 'o' However Australians had no problem with Nicole . So she became Nicole. Lol. The only evidence of it is her birth certificate. I think it would also drive me barmy and I don't think I would cope well with confusing pronunciations. |
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Wow I'm surprised this is a deal breaker for some. Does this mean we may need to insist on one pronunciation? Will we confuse others by not insisting it's spoken in the common way. Will others think us odd if we say it honestly doesn't matter? It's one of those lose-lose situations either way isn't it as people will judge the name to start with, then judge whatever pronunciation we insist on as being "wrong".
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Oriental Lily what you're referring to is a difference in dialect and I would think that now that we're living in a global world these things would matter less and less.
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I prefer names with only 1 pronounciation too. Saying that we didnt even think there was another way to say Grant until someone from SA visited and then you hear it on TV too, and it rubs the wrong way. We just correct and they say it right, but it really bothered me at first. We went through all the checks and never heard the other pronounciation before. uggh
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Do you also correct South Australians for the way they pronounce pant or plant?
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